ABC’s “Rising Star” Flops in the Ratings

ABC’s “Rising Star” Flops in the Ratings

Update 2: The time-adjusted data is now available, and it does not brighten the outlook for ABC’s “Rising Star.” The show’s adults 18-49 rating remains at a 1.5, and its viewership average perks up just a bit to 5.2 million.

ABC’s new music competition series is evidently not network television’s latest “Rising Star.”

Sunday’s two-hour premiere of the competition series, which features an immediate fan vote and expert advice from Ludacris, Kesha and Brad Paisley, drew a paltry 3.2 overnight household rating.

A far cry below even the season’s lowest-rated editions of “American Idol,” the 3.2 for the heavily-hyped premiere should provide no optimism about the show’s ability to deliver big numbers over the course the season.

NBC’s special edition of “America’s Got Talent,” which was strategically programmed as competition for “Star,” drew a 5.1 in the timeslot.

After opening with a 3.2 overnight household rating at 9PM, “Rising Star” drew a 3.3 in the 9:30PM and 10PM half hours before closing with a 3.1 at 10:30PM.

The adults 18-49 rating and total viewership averages (including data adjusted for the live nature of the broadcast) will be made available later Monday.

Sad, sad ,sad. They keep telling these poor kids “Your a star” and “Your going to have a Tour Bus” and so on and so on. Since I was the only Rock n’ Roller on Lud’s Music Site I appreciate his success’s. Brad came up like I did, night after night playing and singing on saw dust covered stages and he knows you can’t just have an expensive sound stage, no orchestra and a Karaoke Machine to make a Rising STAR. The way it works, and I was there at the start at Sun Records, is you fill a small club and then it over flows and you go to a bigger club and they stand in line around the block to get in to see you three shows a day. After the news media starts talking to you about your huge following a record company signs you. You have to play an instrument, write your own songs, have great stage presence and be drop dead good looking to make it all work. Anything else is just nonsense. Oh, and you have to do it for years before your discovered!!!!!!

GlideGirl

I used to be an artist with a manager. I was fortunate enough to work with some celebs. This was pre-YouTube, so I had to hawk demo tapes, sleep on the floors at the houses of my friends in California, move to NYC and struggle. Now, YouTube cuts through and allows people to get a following, but that’s the equivalent of a demo in that you hustle and people gravitate to you or they don’t. I agree that these shows sell unrealistic dreams via their overblown titles. However, it does provide exposure that I would’ve died for when I was an artist. That exposure has produced a few legit stars from American Idol.

mattob

Well, Simon Cowell got pissy when NBC did this with “The Voice” against his show “The X-Factor.” I wonder what he’d say now that HIS show America’s Got Talent (of which he is the owner/producer) deliberately pulled people away from his show. “Rising Star” is a decent show. I hope it does well enough to be a ‘summertime’ show for ABC this year and next. The concept is very interesting.